Chapter 136 Dark Castle [3]

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"Yeah, i should probably try to find those kids quickly." It still wasn't assured if all four of them were alive and well. Especially that Don bastard. I also wondered if they were separated like i was. Getting split up in unfamiliar territory like this one, especially when we have absolutely no knowledge about what is happening, is more than dangerous. 'And there's still the slim and possible chance they aren't even here.' In the first place, where even was 'here'? If Nicodemus could forcefully drag me into such a place, then why couldn't he also possibly drag others into different other places. In the end, the bracelets only tracked the groups total cumulative number of kills and points. There was no gps like monitoring feature or whatever, and i wasn't sure if there was a distance range or something. Although i still believe they're all here with me in Dark Castle, but i was just being open minded. I suddenly remembered a part of a saying i had heard from somewhere at some point before. Always trust your gut and be open minded. The instincts of an Awakened are their true weapons. An Awakened's intuition was more powerful than ine would think. And in this case, my intuition was all over the place. My gut was telling me they were here. But i was aslo broadly embracing the chances that they weren't. Regardless. "None of that matters for now." I first of all had to take care of myself. [Be careful. With what just happened now and the unfamiliar strange structure of Dark Castle, if others could also have been pulled in here like you have, then it is also likely that humans aren't the only ones.] -Vrrrm -Vrrmm The bracelet vibrated again and i watched the number of points rise again with amusement. "Well... The kids seem to he doing much better without me for now." And this also went to further confirm Meta's latest statement.@@@@ It seems like humans weren't the only ones pulled into Dark Castle. I loooked down at the corpse below me. I did think the Sand Walker suddenly appeared from nowhere all of a sudden, and maybe...it really might have. Could the Sand Walker had just been transported into Dark Castle and at the very moment too, it decided to attack me? That would explain why one moment i couldn't sense absolutely nothing next to me, but then the very next i nearly had my face skinned off by the monster. The silver slime Hamlet moved up my hands and perched against my left shoulder. Then i channeled a thread of Ether into my storage device and summoned my spear. Then i threw my head back hysterically and sighed very loudly. "Ahh, Meta. What a dilemma this has turned out to be! A dungeon inside a dungeon? One where we could die and we've all been separated, crawling endlessly with monsters and horror. My teammates are also in trouble, but i have to survive, right? I have to first ensure my chances before rushing to their aide, right?" [...] "Th-this is..." I stumbled backwards, gripping my face with my free arm hysterically. "I have to first survive. For their sake...i have to become stronger." My shoulders trembled as dark excitement— i mean sorrow vrewed inside of me. "For their sake..." I smiled under my palm. "I have to rank up." Just then, i heard Meta sneer. [Dumbfuck. You just want to grind.] I scoffed. Continue reading stories on My Virtual Library Empire "Of course, isn't that obvious. In the first place i came into this dungeon as my greatest chance to break my bottleneck. But since I've always had those kids, Don and the others around me consistently, i haven't been able to farm experience points well." I shrugged, Indeed, i had already killed a few monsters over the last three days, but it wasn't enough. All this time spent in Terra Sanguis, and still nothing to show for it. Perhaps Dark Castle was as well a blessing in disguise, as it was a troublesome dilemma. If i could use this small opportunity i had away from the watchful eyes of the others to raise my rank, then why would i miss it? It sounded like having my priorities mixed up, maybe. But in the first place, my priority had always been breaking through to Eta rank. Not this exercise, or the points awarded for it. In addition, if i could breakthrough here, i would become stronger and that would raise my chances of survival. And then maybe i could do something about the whole Dark Castle and Exercise. Thinking like so, i nodded resolutely and planted my spear against the ground next to my foot. "Yes, I've decided." The sooner i could get stronger, the sooner i could help the others and get out of here. "Let's rank up this time."

Chapter 136 Dark Castle [3]

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